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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

acornhorticulture.com

Acorn Horticulture - Hydroponics Grow Shop Sheffield, UK

Page Load Speed

11.5 sec in total

First Response

527 ms

Resources Loaded

8.4 sec

Page Rendered

2.5 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Acornhorticulture.com page load time and found that the first response time was 527 ms and then it took 10.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

acornhorticulture.com performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

13/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value11,470 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.058

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value26.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

acornhorticulture.com

527 ms

el-section-title.min.css

168 ms

el-section-title-style-simple-and-brd.min.css

943 ms

lib-owl-carousel.min.css

254 ms

el-gallery.min.css

255 ms

Our browser made a total of 259 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 77% of them (200 requests) were addressed to the original Acornhorticulture.com, 6% (16 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 5% (12 requests) were made to Jnn-pa.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Acornhorticulture.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 670.5 kB (16%)

Content Size

4.1 MB

After Optimization

3.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Acornhorticulture.com main page is 4.1 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 528.0 kB

  • Original 614.6 kB
  • After minification 594.7 kB
  • After compression 86.7 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 528.0 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 29.4 kB

  • Original 2.4 MB
  • After minification 2.4 MB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Acorn Horticulture images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 90.9 kB

  • Original 777.6 kB
  • After minification 759.1 kB
  • After compression 686.7 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 90.9 kB or 12% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 22.3 kB

  • Original 238.6 kB
  • After minification 238.2 kB
  • After compression 216.3 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Acornhorticulture.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 156 (63%)

Requests Now

246

After Optimization

90

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 246 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Acorn Horticulture. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 85 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 73 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

acornhorticulture.com accessibility score

80

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

acornhorticulture.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

acornhorticulture.com SEO score

90

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Mobile Friendly

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Acornhorticulture.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Acornhorticulture.com main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Acorn Horticulture. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: